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moved in 1975--this was my pontiac paradise--lots of pleasurable moments & memories in & around this building!

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this is where all the projects were processed--drag em in from the boneyard just outside, then thrash on em for a while, then take em out & kick some chevy butt! sometimes a finished racer could sleep inside, but more often it was 2 crowded with new projects & they had 2 sleep out in the barnyard--it was always full of goats, birds, dogs & cats--& occasionally an unwelcomed guest--pew-eeee(skunk) i just noticed--in pic #2 you can see the chain falls hoist i had borrowed from my dad 2 pull motors from the hangin trees in my 1st outdoor shop. i hung it off the main beam of the sb & pulled 2 many motors 2 count with it--told my dad he knew where it was when he needed it.

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i always enjoyed loadin everthang up & gettin ready 2 go racin. the staging area was right outside our front door. we could always just look out the window & see all sorts of pontiacs, from junkers 2 race ready. & when we got back from a race late at nite, we'd just park the rig & unload the next day. hey, it was a great life!

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here's the outside of my "new" facility. the last shot is inside the milking parlor where i actually milked cows from age 6 thru 11. so this is REALLY where i came from. it was originally built in the late '40's by my dad, uncle & grandpa. 3rd pic shows the small door in the corner, which is the main entrance 2 the shop area.

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there are several reminders of the past just outside. the 800 ford was our biggest ever--22' box. i drove chevy, gmc, ford, international & last & least--a red stude pick-up. i learned how 2 shift a stick drivin these old "clabber wagons", as i called em. we use 2 get our water from a deep well drawn by an old sucker rod pump that was located between where the 2 trucks are sitting. it had a leather washer of some kind on the end of the rods which would have 2 be changed out every couple of months. i can remember it was all hands on deck when we had 2 pull out all those joints of sucker rods to change the gasket or washer or whatever it was called. had 2 be real careful not 2 drop em in the hole--we never did--thankfully. i enjoyed drivin them old trucks--but an added bonus was that i could drink all the cold choclate milk i wanted, day or nite. the small truck pictured is what we called a "retail" or "house 2 house" truck. the proper term would probably be "home delivery truck". it is sitting on all thats left of what use 2 be our 4-holer truck shed, after a tornado blew it down. this shot was taken from the milking parlor. before it was a truck shed, this slab was used as a holding pen for cows waiting 2 be milked.

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if you have any doubts about what this slab was originally used for--these pics should settle it. looks like a few critters snuck in before the concrete was completely dry. the best pic with the deepest prints just refuses 2 upload for some reason. but rest assured, there are dozens of cow tracks still showin. this is the same slab i mentioned ealier that was 6" deep in dried cow manure when i decided 2 put some ponyaks on it. that was some fun grunt work--you gotta love it! its smooth enuff for a creeper, but slopes downhill slightly for drainage. not perfect, but usable.

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rite now, there's a '79 ta, '74 vent 2, mid '80's safari wagon & some left over dirt racin stuff. my '68 bird just left 2 go have a 455 snatched from a dirt car & put in it. last year a '69 tempest also lived here. the original sb had plenty of 1st & 2nd gen birds, a wide variety of a-bodies, lots of big cars & probably a wagon or 2 were there just long enuff 2 cough op their 455/long tail th400. but i don't recall a vent ever entering the barn. & sb2 has had 1 other type of car that sb1 never had--3rd gen birds. back in early '08, i didn't think i'd be able 2 find a 1st or 2nd gen that i could afford.(i'd never used a computer, so i didn't know anything about racingjunk,com or py or anything else on the internet)so i started gatherin up 3rd gens. soon had a barn full & a good start on a 3rd gen junkyard in the barnyard--hey, just like old times. then i scored a 1st & sec gen, a vent 2 & a '69 tempest. so i sold all the 3rd gens 2 the same guy. all i have left of that deal is a mid '80's ta hood with a big $200+ scoop on it. the guy wasn't a racer, so he thought the $100 price tag i had on it was 2 hi. who knows, i may transfer that scoop 2 some of my stuff some day. by the way, you'll notice that everything in sb2 is covered with thick yellow dust. its peak pollen season down here--the pines(& lots of other stuff) are lettin it fly! i started cleanin some of it off for the photo shoot, but soon decided it was a hopeless case--it would have been after dark before i could have cleaned up all the cars. anyhow, this is my new playpen. notice the new shingle TJ made 2 hang on the wall.